Thursday, February 21, 2013

Joomla 3.0.2: change site favicon

Ensure you have a 16x16 pixels image file. If not, resize what you have.
Convert your image in .ico image.
Rename your file to favicon.ico
Put your file under:

<joomla_root_dir>/templates/<your_template_name>/

Here you will have already a file with that name. So you overwrite it.

Now to see your new icon you need to
- reload the page(F5)
- force reloading your page (CTRL-SHIFT-R)
- clear internet tmp files

Have fun...

1 comment:

  1. >>Here you will have already a file with that name.

    in fact.

    >>So you overwrite it.

    How to do it in Joomla 3.2.2 ?

    When I try yo upload favicon.ico file, first I get following error:

    Das Dateiformat wird nicht unterstützt.

    So I had to go to the Joomla- System configuration - template Options
    and add .ico to the allowed formats

    Then when I again try to upload the favicon,ico I get:
    File with the same name already exists. Failed to upload file.

    Also there is not possibility to delete or rename the existing favicon,ico

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